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Edward J Phillips Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$956k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$901kReligion$504kEducation$368kFood & Nutrition$253kYouth Development$136kCommunity Improvement$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $237k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $428k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO FOUNDATION$250,000
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$115,000
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$100,000
THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$100,000
SCHOOL FOR ETHICS AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP$62,500
TEMPLE ISRAEL$50,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$45,000
NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB$45,000
THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$45,000
EVERY MEAL$25,000
LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$15,000
ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$11,500
PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%AVODAH FARMS: $30k → 8%PROOF ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $8k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
KY
NC
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 19 repeat orgs$569k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
23

Total granted

$5.6M
$514k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+40%

Still filing today

74%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $900k · revenue +88%
  • TC
    The Constellation Fund
    4× · 2019–2022 · $300k · revenue +86%
  • The School for Ethics and Global Leadership
    6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • WC
    WE CHARITY
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • AF
    AVODAH FARMSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +386%
  • EA
    EMPOWERS AFRICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +290%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
5
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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7
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
8
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
11
Winona Health Foundation

The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.

Health
12
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%8%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr15%13%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr18%57%20–35yr15%4%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
15%
8,503/57,734

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO FOUNDATION — $1,675,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONWE CHARITY — $250,000 · OtherWE CHARITYMINNESOTA HILLEL — $250,000 · OtherMINNESOTA HILLELTEMPLE ISRAEL — $245,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELTHE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — $220,000 · OtherTHE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETYTHE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $126,000 · Other+23 more — $335,525 · Other+23 moreTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $960,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …+6 more — $74,325 · Health+6 moreNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $900,000 · Crime & LegalNORTHSIDE ACHIEV…+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & LegalThe Constellation Fund — $300,000 · PhilanthropyThe Const…NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSIDE…EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyEAU CLAIR…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNE…+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership — $245,000 · EducationSo Others May Learn — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Education+4 more — $20,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $123,325 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL — $103,325 · Food & NutritionLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $105,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,101,525Health$1,134,325Crime & Legal$901,000Philanthropy$505,000Education$305,000Food & Nutrition$226,650Housing & Shelter$105,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $960,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $900,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetThe Constellation Fund — $300,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL — $250,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership — $245,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $123,325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $103,325 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC — $85,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVODAH FARMS — $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSo Others May Learn — $25,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROOF ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $18,325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO — $18,325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PARACHUTE FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation — $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAD GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE FOR REW INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Otto Bremer TrustBaird Foundation IncCh Robinson Worldwide…Oak Grove Foundation …Xcel Energy FoundationThe K FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Oak Grove Foundation Ma · Xcel Energy Foundation · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Edward J Phillips Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Edward J Phillips Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward J Phillips Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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